This image, as reported by the BBC, released at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. Figure Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a mosaic assembled from seven million pixels where each pixel is made of 125 million images.
This image was taken using a 138 megapixel camera mounted on the telescope at Apache Point Obervatory in New Mexico. Ohio State University astronomer David Weinberg SDSS makers say, there are half a billion objects detected in this picture.
"About a quarter of a billion stars and a quarter billion galaxies in the picture," he said.
While Marek Kukula of the Royal Greenwich Observatory states, individual stars and galaxies can be seen with remarkable details,
New York University physicist Michael Blanton representing Sloan said the team is filled with images of galaxies that are in the process of birth or hit each other hard with one another.
"Not only are very large, is also very useful," he said.
The astronomers said the data from the images could help to better understand the origin of the Milky Way
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